The present article describes participatory theater as a means of empowering audience individuals to lead social change. The focus on participation by oppressed individuals as a means of organizing for social change was recognized as important by scholars and practitioners, especially by the celebrated Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and the Brazilian theater activist, Augusto Boal. Here we d...

This article examines the relatively new field of everyday aesthetics and its use in artistic works. I argue anyone can have an aesthetic experience regardless of the source, in the sense that it can happen during daily activities and from the appreciation of banal objects. In addition, contemporary art explores the significance of the prosaic and how people react to a new approach that often r...

Limitations to the predominant models for discomfort glare prediction for electric lighting, the Unified Glare Rating and the Visual Comfort Probability, are well known. There is no single widely-accepted model as yet for discomfort experienced from daylight. Overhead glare from small, bright light sources is a newlyidentified problem. This workshop at the CIE Session in Sun City sought to anim...

This paper is intended to serve as a springboard for a panel discussion with audience participation on information l-tering and retrieval. Medical informatics is an emerging specialty which links medicine and information technology. With the unprecedented availability of digital information, retrieval and ltering are becoming important aspects of medical informatics. An overview of medical appl...

Existing IEEE software reliability standards do not address the characteristics of distributed systems, including client-server systems. Furthermore, these standards were issued before the widespread application of COTS and safety-critical systems. In addition, these standards do not take into account the influence on reliability of such process improvement measures as inspections, reuse, and o...

This paper is intended to serve as a springboard for a panel discussion with audience participation on information l tering and retrieval Medical informatics is an emerging specialty which links medicine and information technology With the unprecedented availability of digital information retrieval and ltering are becoming important aspects of medical informatics An overview of medical applicat...

artworks that deconstruct and resist identification but carry rather a forceful, often transformative encounter. That encounter is argued to produce strong non-cognitive, corporeal processes or states of affect (Massumi, 1987). Discussions also lied on theoretical models and ideas deploying the conception of affect, introduced the idea of experience in the context of analysing texts of literatu...

This paper describes an overview of a panel that will be held as an interactive event in CSCL2002. Multicultural issues in design, evaluations and dissemination of CSCL systems are discussed. Four outstanding panelists will share their rich experiences, and propose how multicultural issues should be considered and examined in the context of system design and development and practice in school e...

A key objective of COST 219ter is to devise a mechanism through which industry can engage with and deliver on the development of devices and systems that are accessible to the widest possible audience. Not only do we want to ensure full accessibility to people with disabilities or for those that find technology challenging to use (to allow full participation in modern society and life), but the...

We have developed an audience response system using the Internet. In this way we combine the advantages of common audience response systems using handheld devices and the easy and cheap access to the Internet. Therefore our system can be used in many different teaching/learning processes which take place in rooms where Internet access is given, e.g. in computer rooms of universities or schools,...